Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. Over her more than 50-year career, she published novels, volumes of poetry and short story collections.
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Jiang Qing
Jiang Qing was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, actor, and major political figure during the country’s Cultural Revolution (1966 to 1976).
Lakshmi Puri
Lakshmi Puri is a former Assistant Secretary-General at the United Nations and the former Deputy Executive Director of UN Women.
Irena Sawicka
Irena Scheur-Sawicka was a Polish archaeologist, ethnographer, and educational and communist activist who joined joined the Polish Workers’ Party during World War II.
Minnie Fisher Cunningham
Minnie Fisher Cunningham was an American suffrage activist, who was the first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters.
Keisha Lance Bottoms
Keisha Lance Bottoms was elected the 60th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia in 2017.
Maria Feodorovna
Maria Feodorovna was Empress consort of Russia as the second wife of Tsar Paul I, and the founder of the Office of the Institutions of Empress Maria, an imperial government charitable agency.
Agrippina the Elder
Agrippina I was the granddaughter of the Roman Emperor Augustus, and played a key role in the succession struggles under Tiberius (who ruled C.E. 14–37).
Ángela Jeria
Chilean archaeologist, the mother of Chilean president Michelle Bachelet and the wife of the Chilean Air Force
Zhang Yao’er
Zhang Yao’er (章要兒).z was an empress of the Chinese Chen Dynasty